Midgard

A Norse adaptation of D&D

Welcome to Midgard!

I’m working here on developing a Norse-themed world in which to run a game starting sometime this fall. At the moment I’m planning on using the playtest rules and starting at first level, but it’s still far enough off that those things could change.

To start, have a look at the wiki. I’m working on fleshing out the sort of stuff you’ll need to know to start thinking about a character. If you have any questions or suggestions, you can put them in Forums. I’d love to hear what you want to know more about. Jacob already made the good point that I need to leave some things to be discovered in-game, but there’s still a lot more front end stuff to be laid out.

A point of interst, I’m taking a lot of inspiration from the Norse mythology book I read all the time as a kid, D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths. You might track a copy down if you’re interested. It’s great.

Midgard

Midgard
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Hey, Andrew! Good work on the world-building. I definitely have a better feel of the world and the flavor you’re trying to produce.
An interesting question to ask yourself in world-building would be ‘what does the 1st level of (allowable) classes look like?" The reasoning is that high-level characters are rare and are ’their own thing’, but 1st level characters are more common and hence more part of the world and society you’re trying to develop. In a conversation we had I mentioned that when I tried to fit 1st level wizards into your world, the first thing I thought of was traveling tinkerers from darker fairy tales (it was part of our ‘dark fairy tales’ discussion). I also like your description here about wizards panning for valuables in the rivers that come out of the dwarven lands. Both of these images together make 1st (or, really, low) level wizards somewhat vagabondish, untrustworthy opportunists looking for petty power or wealth. I really like this image in the context of the broader world your building (one in which the human realms are made up of isolated communities which would probably regard such people with suspicion, but maybe not outright superstisous hostility). Soo… what would the 1st levels of other classes in this world look like?